What is "Girl Mode"

[AvocadoBathroom]

A non question for actual women. What is "girl mode"?
To me it's a very youth orientated fetishy definition which feels a bit like My Little Pony.

I stopped calling myself a girl at the point I hit around 20 I think. I dont think of myself as a girl, I think of myself as a woman, especially once I had children.

I think it's odd to describe yourself as a girl if you are a middle aged man. I'm trying to imagine an older woman describing herself as being in "boy mode" and all I can think of is Jimmy Krankee.

Never heard of it, heard lots of women talk about being with the girls which always seems a bit odd if you're all out of your teens. Being in your 50s and going out with the girls sounds a bit daft, why not just go out with your friends.

Girl mode could also be what you slink to when you realise you look like a pound shop Bowie.

That pic of Eddie is what my resting bitch face aspires to. And I’m quite a frightening teacher.

That picture. And the hat.

Oh the humanity...

Which won’t be great again until men stop thinking that they are the only ones who are great.

As I understand , girl mode is grown men hanging around womens toilets and bravely squaring up to teenage girls

At the moment my personal girl mode is my almost 60 year old body remembering it used to be a boxercise instructor and delivering a devastating left, right, knee combo to the face of the loud mouthed male twat uttering such poppycock!

I swear I flexed my knees, cracked my knuckles and ran through the strikes in my head... Eddie had best stay out of Gloucestershire!!!

I got a compliment from the CEO of my company but he called me a girl in the process. My reaction "I'm not a girl!" You could see all the senior people around me wince, but it was a natural reaction at 40! I look young, but still...

I have friends who invite "just the girls" but its not a phrase I use.

So e people I know use girly to mean shopping and beautifying activities but its not something I'd say.

I can't get my head around adults, male or female having "girl mode". I dont really have modes girl or otherwise.

'Girl mode' is definitely a sexually oriented term - suggestive of flirtatious coquetry and flamboyant emotional & gestural expression.
From someone who, maybe, is permanently conscious of how they are presenting at any one time. It is all about superficial observational presentations distilled into an art form.

Wankers, literal and metaphorical, call grown women "girls"

I can't get my head around adults, male or female having "girl mode". I dont really have modes girl or otherwise

Maybe it is when you knowingly and consciously enter into a specific set of stereotypical presentations or activities. A girls' night in might mean a night of drinking prosecco and watching reality TV.

What is a twirly skirt?

Briefly, in the 80s, when some of these aging dicks were young, there were such things as ra-ra skirts. They were twirly

I think of Sandy in Grease twirly

Funnily enough, re the Jimmy Krankie comment, I was looking up Grace Petrie recently, after she was mentioned online for some offensive comments attacking T**fs. I couldn't figure out who she reminded me of, and then it hit me. Here was an adult woman who had apparently modelled her fashion sense on wee Jimmy!

@despairenting

See, I have no problem with a grown man enjoying playing with glitter, make-up and clothes, especially if he grew up in a time with strict gender roles and was never allowed to express himself in that way. I would honestly be really happy to see someone expressing real joy over getting to play around with those things! To be honest, I don't even really care if they get sexually excited while doing so, just as long as they leave actual girls (in the sense of female children) out of it, don't claim to be girls themselves, don't claim that's what being a girl/woman is all about, and don't try to speak for women just because they like glitter. But that's way too much to ask, apparently.

Yup, 100% agree with this.

I really think the wokestars in hollywood should be demanding that eddie izzard plays tom cruise or brad pitts love interest in their next films or even better a bond girl as he can do 'girl' mode so well

Oh I get it. They flare out if you spin around.

Like women do in adverts for slimming products/ sanitary towels, but not actually in real life.

I’ve just had to break it to my sister that she was supplied with a faulty girl mode switch and had been delivered in boy mode. She isn’t impressed...

It's just embarrassing how so many "trans girls" think womanhood is spinny skirts and glitter. In reality it's - where to even start? Weepy c-section scars, monthly hormone maelstrom followed by a week of bleeding, gynae medical care being an absolute joke, being the main victims of sexual assault and DV, getting paid less, getting shat on by every element of the capitalist structure... The list is honestly endless.

Come to think of it, twirly skirts and glitter were what my DD, an actual female girl, used to call “swish-swish dresses” and “sparklies” and was massively into between the ages of 2 and 3 years old.

I think the PP who said something along the lines of it being a short vacation from the serious job of Being A Man was on the right track.

@heathspeedwell

If he were actually a woman he'd be pushing OAP mode if the pensions age hadn't been changed.

reminds me of the innocent underage girl porn trope. All wide eyed passivity and helplessness.

Yes, looks so cute to middle-aged men. Who of course look equally cute when they simper and do the little head tilt. Definitely no one’s laughing ...

It’s (imo distasteful) shorthand that trans people (of all sexes, Binary and NB) use when they are attempting to be read as female by people they encounter (or at least signaling so hard they want to be read this way that people will comply even if they don’t pass at all). Boy-mode being the opposite and something you see a lot from trans people of both sexes. Usually involves leaning very heavily into stereotypes. Pre-everything Trans women will often say they are still boymode at work, or only girl mode at home, and things like that. Trans men the opposite

I do agree it’s unsettling to use boy and girl if someone is a full grown adult. I admit to still thinking of myself as a “girl” well into my 20s. Past 30 should be banned from using it... :/